{"id":149816,"date":"2025-03-14T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-collared-doves-are-such-a-success-story-especially-in-our-garden-phil-gates\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T22:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:24:33","slug":"country-diary-collared-doves-are-such-a-success-story-especially-in-our-garden-phil-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-collared-doves-are-such-a-success-story-especially-in-our-garden-phil-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: Collared doves are such a success story \u2013 especially in our garden | Phil Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCrook, County Durham: They\u2019re determined breeders, but I can\u2019t help but feel anxious watching them nest precariously in the leylandii cypressA pair of collared doves in close formation glide in an elegant arc over the garden hedge and, with an angelic raising of wings, stall their flight and perform a feather-light landing. We used to see a lot of them, fewer in recent years. There\u2019s a suggestion that the species has suffered from the same trichomonosis parasite that has afflicted greenfinches. Competition from wood pigeons \u2013 increasingly frequent garden visitors \u2013 might have been a factor too.And here come the wood pigeons, arriving with a bouncy crash-landing, waddling up the garden path, all bluster and swagger. They\u2019re already nesting in our ivy-clad silver birch. Both species are beneficiaries of a trickle-down economy, bestowed by finches scattering seeds from the bird feeders I\u2019ve just refilled. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Crook, County Durham: They\u2019re determined breeders, but I can\u2019t help but feel anxious watching them...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-CYo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143717,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/house-sparrow-tops-big-garden-birdwatch-charts-for-21st-year-in-a-row\/","url_meta":{"origin":149816,"position":0},"title":"House sparrow tops Big Garden Birdwatch charts for 21st year in a row","date":"April 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Blue tits, starlings, wood pigeons and blackbirds next most sighted in RSPB survey involving 600,000 participantsA friendly if slightly tuneless chirp is the most ubiquitous birdsong in British gardens with the house sparrow topping the Big Garden Birdwatch charts for the 21st consecutive year, according to the annual RSPB\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131128,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/where-all-the-birds-have-gone-this-year-a-garden-survey-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":149816,"position":1},"title":"Where all the birds have gone this year \u2013 a garden survey | Letters","date":"October 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Readers respond to a letter writer who was afraid that the hot summer had wiped out a generation of small birdsThe paucity of birds in Mary Julian\u2019s Hackney garden (Letters, 18 October) is perhaps a problem of the metropolis. 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